Red Sox 6, Royals 0

BOSTON — Jon Lester allowed no earned runs for the third time in four starts, and the Red Sox completed a three-game sweep. Only one Royals player reached third against Lester, who has a 0.85 ERA over his past seven starts covering 522/3 innings and has yielded one earned run in his past 31 innings. "You've got to take each one as an individual," he said. "If I'm out there thinking about what I did last time, I'm not worried about the right things."